May 04 U.S. Broadcast Industry By PBS News Hour On Christmas Eve 1906, Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden conducted the first radio broadcast in history, sending a recording of Handel's Largo, Christian hymns and a "Merry Christmas" to United Fruit Co. boats in the Atlantic Ocean. Continue reading
May 04 The Future and Past of Broadcast Radio By PBS News Hour Spanish talk shows, eclectic music mixes, and entertaining ads were not the common fare on American broadcast radio just a few years ago. Continue reading
May 04 Suicide Bomber Kills Dozens in Northern Iraq By PBS News Hour A suicide bomber posing as a job applicant at a police recruiting center in the city of Irbil blew himself up Wednesday, killing at least 50 people and wounding some 100 others. An Iraqi militant group claimed responsibility for the… Continue reading
May 04 Watch Military Judge Declares a Mistrial in Iraq Prison Abuse Scandal Case A military judge on Wednesday declared a mistrial in the case of Lynndie England, a key figure in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. Continue watching
May 04 Watch World Press Photo's 2004 Exhibition of Best Photojournalism Opens in New York The World Press Photo's exhibition of the best photojournalism of 2004 is now open at the U.N. headquarters in New York and will travel to 85 cities around the world in the coming year. Media correspondent Jeffrey Brown speaks with… Continue watching
May 04 Watch Scores Die in Northern Iraq Suicide Bombing A suicide bomber posing as a job applicant at a police recruiting center in the city of Irbil blew himself up Wednesday, killing at least 50 people and wounding some 100 others. Continue watching
May 03 Iran Says It Will Resume Nuclear Activity By PBS News Hour On the opening day of a U.N. conference on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Iran announced Tuesday that it will continue pursuing all "legal" nuclear activities. Continue reading
May 03 Watch U.S., Italy Issue Reports on Checkpoint Death The Italian government Tuesday issued a terse rebuttal to a U.S. Army report clearing American soldiers in the shooting death of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq. Two journalists discuss the Italian and American investigations into the shooting. Continue watching
May 02 Trio of Car Bombs Mark Latest Violence in Iraq By PBS News Hour Three car bombs exploded in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least eight people in the latest surge in violence since a new Iraqi government was named last week. Continue reading
May 02 Types of Nuclear Bombs By PBS News Hour In an atomic bomb, the energy or force of the weapon is derived only from nuclear fission - the splitting of the nucleus of heavy elements such as plutonium or highly enriched uranium into lighter nuclei. Continue reading